While testing Alexei's scaling trick, I rediscovered an old source of
irritation (apart from the barely visible dot on the "i").
1. Download https://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans
2. Load OpenSans-Regular.ttf in ftview, look at sizes 10, 13, 15, 19
3. Press A and B and
(repost to the list because I forgot to correct the addressee)
> This `fix' is purely accidental, unfortunately. There is no guarantee
that you get similar well-looking results with other fonts.
I noticed already, Open Sans Bold likes to snap 1 pixel too high.
You might convert metric
Emboldening changes the outline but not the metrics or blue zones. It
is up on you to deal with it. Here is an idea to brush it aside
gracefully: embolden and scale back. Yes, emboldenig changes the
bounding box predictably, so that you can restore it by scaling back.
This will eat away some of
Albert Astals Cid wrote::
El Dilluns, 21 de setembre de 2015, a les 13:32:18, suzuki toshiya va
escriure:
However, I don't know how Adobe Reader handles a PDF
including such font. Yet I'm not sure whether FreeType2
should care, or, poppler should, but, if Adobe Reader opens
it without any font
El Dilluns, 21 de setembre de 2015, a les 13:32:18, suzuki toshiya va
escriure:
> Dear Albert,
>
> As
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm#otttables
> says, hmtx is "required" table for self standing font.
>
> Also
>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
>> Or maybe
>> you extend the blue zone data structures with resolution-dependent
>> versions that you can adjust for emboldening.
>
>
> Hm. You mean taking the emboldening strength in font units and adjusting
> the